Official Twitter app for Windows Phone gets dark theme, new languages, and lockscreen

Version 3.0 of the Official Twitter app for Windows Phone brings a handful of new features

The official Twitter app for Windows Phone was last updated back in June and that was after its major overhaul in February of this year. Today version 3.0.0.0 has landed on the store and if that should ring a bell, it means a major version change and not just a few fixes or enhancements.

Loading up the app and heading into settings we find a surfeit of new and welcomed changes, including the much coveted “dark” theme. While the default light theme was always sharp looking, dark (along with that Twitter category bar at the top) looks especially elegant.

But besides that new theme, there are a few other changes, let’s take a look.

"During account registration, the app now offers suggestions for friends and other people to follow, to get you into the conversation quicker...New direct message syncing means your Twitter account is always up-to-date: read a message on your Windows Phone and it’s marked as “read” on your Windows PC, too."

The lockscreen experience is particularly interesting as it take a snapshot of a Tweet and any photo that is accompanied by it and adds it to a prefabbed layout. With the design, you can clearly see your time and detailed information, but you also get a glimpse of what we imagine is a popular Tweet i.e. it’s been retweeted a lot by others.

While we don’t use the search or keyword searches all that often on Twitter, we know many of you do. Having improved Search and Discover features should go a long way in making that more useful—in addition to being able to pin to your Start screen.

Overall, Twitter version 3.0 is a nice update for an official app. It of course still is far behind many of the excellent third-party apps that are more geared towards the ambitious, but for the average user it sure makes a great impression.

Pick up the official Twitter client, version 3.0, for Windows Phone 8 here in the Store. Thanks, everyone, for the tips

Official Twitter app for Windows Phone gets dark theme, new languages, and lockscreen

The updates are great but it needs to show mentions on same page. For ex: when I click @wpcentral I can click tweets and see what they tweet but can't see what other people tweet about them without having to back out and search for it. It should all be under the same profile like most 3rd parties have it. Other than that great work and keep it coming!!

Actually I dont want that xD or at least if they do it I want that whe can choose if we want it or not xD I like to see my home screen as much colorful as possible xD it gets kind of boring for me having all the tiles with the same colour :P

I meant it as a choice. Hence "the possibility" ;)
Some like various colours others don't. So the best would be to give us the choice.
I, for example, have my entire first page of tiles all in variations of the same colour. And then the blue twitter tile breaks everything. It's literally the only tile in my first page that isn't in the colour scheme of the others.

Choice is key.
I for one can't stand to have nearly every tile theme colored. It blurs everything together and seems bland. I like to group categories by color, ie, all of my social apps are blue, media apps are green, etc.
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However, I don't think your iPhone has tiles.

You mean a roundup or just wait until 'X' day to announce everything? Because the latter option is not really an option. It defeats the purpose of our site and we'll have hundreds of tips going unanswered.

A roundup/recap of the new/interesting/improved/updated apps off the week. Kind of what like Gizmodo does with their "Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week" or how AndroidPolice does the "Best New Android Apps From The Last 2 Weeks".
Just to give a hint in what kind of direction I'm thinking here.

I'm loving the twitter app. Its almost caught up with the IOS version. Literally the only thing that I need now is when you go into a trend, you click on the tweet button and it starts a tweet with that trend.

Lock screen option doesn't work for me on the 8x :( "Configure" button in app is greyed out and if I select twitter as lock screen option in settings, it doesn't work there either. I guess a phone restart or app re-install might be needed

Really enjoying this update but it seems im only getting global trends-as before in the last version. Can you not select your local country for trends in the app like the desktop? If you can can someone say where to set that!

Nah developers shouldn't be forced to do that, but I do think it should be a best practice. But it's not for all apps, it's better to have creative freedom for them to make it look the way they want. Not all the phones use OLED screens (for example my 920) so it's always backlit even with a dark theme.

Is there an easy way to scroll to the top of the list of the tweets you're following in this app? I find myself scrolling to the top manually with my thumb every time I want to read the latest tweets (i.e. pulling the screen down until you get to 'pull to refresh'). There must be an easier way!

Finally I was waiting for a dark theme I brought 5 other twitter apps with dark themes but I still dropped them all after the official twitter overhaul and that's the only thing I missed so I'm pretty happy now also I like that they are translating inside the feed and I don't have to click on a tweet anymore would be nice to get that integrated in wp8 also

Grrrr... 'Load more tweets' still works backwards. It loads more tweets and then leaves you at the newest tweet instead of the oldest so you have to scroll back to look at the tweets you just loaded. Makes no sense.

Home just takes you to the newest tweet? It doesn't take you to the oldest.
I'm not talking about a refresh. I'm talking about tapping "Load more Tweets" in the timeline. On a refresh it loads about a 100 new tweets. If your timeline has more than 100 new tweets to download, it displays "Load more tweets" in the timeline. Tap that and it will load 100 more tweets. However it does not move you to the oldest tweet of the second load, it stays at the oldest tweet of the first load. You have to scroll backwards to look at the second hundred you loaded. Hitting the Home icon just takes you to the top of the timeline, the newest tweet.

Best improvement imo is that the menu bar isnt that huge anymore! It took almost 1/3 of the screen because it had a little bird above the row of icons, now that bird is gone which makes it much smaller. O and I love the dark them, 925 with AMOLED display = cant distinguish between the black background and the black frame of the phone.

I respect Twitter. They're one of the few companies that actively supports Windows Phone, not only by providing an official app, but by updating it pretty frequently. Not to mention they're bringing Vine to WP as well. I know it's taking a while but they aren't being childish about it like Google and Instagram are.

Is the problem with the live tile still present? I don't know, haven't got any mentions today... There's this bug when live tile keeps showing only "1" if you have mentions and stuff, regardless how many. I mean, if there's none, it shows nothing, of course, but one mention or ten, the tile would show "1" all the time... :/

"lockscreen experience... you also get a glimpse of what we imagine is a popular Tweet i.e. it’s been retweeted a lot by others."(Tries it, sees the first lockscreen is a pic of Miley Cyrus with the caption "Miley Cyrus Bares ALL For Terry Richardson" from an account he doesn't follow, then disables this "experience", again disappointed with humanity...). 8)